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Andre Oboler named as one of Israel’s best ‘cyber warriors’ in the Jewish Chronicle
Lucy Tobin, Israel’s cyber warriors, The Jewish Chronicle, Feb 12, 2009 When Joel Leyden speaks about Israel, 89,000 people listen. His name may not be familiar, but if you have ever used Google to look up anything on the Middle East, then you have probably had your search results influenced by him. And if you […]
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The Australian Jewish News interview Dr Oboler on internet Antisemitism
Sharon Berger, Expert Warns on Internet antisemitism, The Australian Jewish News, October 31 2008, pg 4 SOCIAL media expert Dr Andre Oboler has issued a dire warning about the transmission of anti-Semitic online cultural values. Behaviour that is not acceptable in a public place should not be accept- able in online communities, such as Google, […]
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A feature on Dr Andre Oboler in The Australian Jewish News
10 Questions for Dr Andre Oboler: Expert on online anti-Semitism, The Australian Jewish News, October 31 2008, Life pg 16 When did it first occur to you to research online anti-Semitism? In late 2004, I was an officer of the students’ union at a UK university, as well as President of the Jewish society on […]
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Andre Oboler interviewed on the ZOA Middle East report on WNWR – New World Radio, Philadelphia
In this radio interview, WNWR’s ZOA Philly Middle East Report interviews Dr Andre Oboler and the JIDF’s David Appletree on Google Earth, Facebook and YouTube. Broadcast on WNWR, July 9th 2008
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Haaretz reports on Dr Oboler’s work making Google search results more friendly
Cnaan Liphshiz, Getting Google to work for us, Haaretz, June 27, 2008 Young innovators show how they’re changing the world. A communications overload brought down the internet connection on Tuesday at Jerusalem’s Hebrew Union College. The surge came from room 104, where the summit’s 20 computer fanatics were trying to simultaneously connect their laptops to […]
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The Jewish Week reports on the Wiki Wars raging on Wikipedia, with analysis from Dr Oboler
Tamar Snyder, Latest Front In Mideast Wars: Wikipedia, The Jewish Week, May 14 2008 Call it the Wiki Wars. Fed up with what he considered the skewed perception of Israel depicted by Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, Gilead Ini, a senior research analyst at CAMERA, the Boston-based pro-Israel media watchdog, decided to mobilize. On March […]
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Tamar Snyder’s award winning Jewish Week article that broke the story on Dr Oboler’s research into Anti-Semitism 2.0 and shook the establishment
Tamar Snyder, Anti-Semitism 2.0 Going Largely Unchallenged, The Jewish Week, 20 February 2008 Old-guard groups seen slow in recognizing viral threat from Facebook, YouTube. More than 35,000 people have joined the Facebook group “Israel is not a country! … Delist it from Facebook as a country!” Type “Jew” into the search function on YouTube, and […]
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Andre Oboler, Software Engineering for the Research Environment (SERE): a process of improving Process Improvement Processes in academic research, PhD Thesis
Abstract This thesis presents a new process based approach to software engineering designed to meet the needs of academic computer science researchers. The core objective was to examine whether software engineering approaches could be adapted for the research environment so that they gain acceptance and enable improvement of the research process. The approach included the […]
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Dascalus, S., Dini, P., Morasca S., Ohta T. and Oboler A. (Eds), proceedings of the second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2007), Cap Esterel, France, 25-31 Aug. 2007, IEEE Press, 2007
I was a co-editor of the conference proceedings for ICSEA 2007. Full citation: Dascalus, S., Dini, P., Morasca S., Ohta T. and Oboler A. (Eds), proceedings of the second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2007), Cap Esterel, France, 25-31 Aug. 2007, IEEE Press, 2007
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Andre Oboler, Simon Lock, Ian Sommerville, “Targetted Improvements”, ICSEA 2007
Abstract In the creative environment where research takes place not everything can be improved. The creative “essence” of research must be undisturbed while “accident” wasted effort is reduced to a minimum. In this paper we discuss the types of knowledge at play in the research environment, introduce a new abstract model of knowledge, and using […]